I, alone, cannot know Peace

I'm going to attempt to put up some posts on my philosophical musings, which will be a mix of literary insensibility and an actual try for truth. For those of you who can bear with me, well done; for those of you who cannot, don't worry too much, I often can't follow myself. Dialectically speaking, of course. Anyway, here goes:

It had been quite some time since I last put effort into clearing my mind. It is a rewiring of the brain, or, to be precise, a process of self-performed (as in performative, not performance) lobotomy. Although I was only under for seven minutes in this most recent attempt (and took nearly 45 minutes just to prepare), I have started to remember why I first tried to find the center of this labyrinth I call a mind.

The Peace. The Fear. Out There. Three concepts I have, quite literally, stumbled upon while meandering among the cells I call home. Out There is simply the whole. Not one of us escapes the confines (although that is a terrible word for it, there is absolutely nothing confining about Out There - there are only self- and societally-imposed constraints) of Out There.

Also contained within Out There are two things: The Peace and the Fear. The Peace is something I have yet to fully wrap my feeble mind around, but I do feel confident that I'm inching ever closer. If I don't accidentally trip a wire leading to a massive implosion, I am sure I will someday know the Peace.

The Fear, on the other hand, is something we all know all too well. It is what concrete fears spring from - and as such is difficult to delineate into a single coherent concept. The Fear evolves, as we do, but it is far more adept at doing so. It is, in fact, able to manifest itself in particular ways for each and every one of us. Much of how the Fear works is dependent on each individual's genetics (in other words, some of the Fear is bred into us), but it is also affected by environmental input.

The Peace, it would seem to me, is not particular to any one of us. It is instead reachable only through the combined efforts of all. Inner peace, a separate and yet intimately connected idea, is necessary before the Peace can be attained. There are many impostors of both inner peace and the Peace itself - though when it is reached, all else that came before will pale in comparison.

-the ambassador